Team

For over 20 years, Euan Tait has been a noteworthy leader in the Energy market. He is 3D at Depth’s Vice President of North & Central America.

In his role, Tait is responsible for leading the North American team and positioning 3D at Depth as the offshore integrity and inspection provider, accelerating 3D at Depth’s revenue through expanding 3D at Depth’s geographic presence in new regions, development of new services, as well as contributing to the company’s business growth strategies.

Tait brings over 20 years of leadership experience in the energy market. Initially, he began his career in Energy Merger & Acquisition investment banking & corporate finance roles. This was followed by several senior management & executive board-level roles with corporate development and growth in the Energy sector. Before joining 3D at Depth, Tait held an integral role within the management team at ROVOP who developed and grew ROVOP over the last six (6) years.

Tait was a key driver in global geographic expansion, firmly establishing a presence in the United States (US), Middle East, Asia Pacific, and mainland Europe. During his time at ROVOP, the company significantly increased global revenues, with the America’s region becoming an established core to the business with several global client contracts being sourced, secured, and managed from the US.

Neil Manning is responsible for the guidance of 3D at Depth’s corporate strategy and investment programs and works closely with executive leadership on the development of the Company’s proprietary (IP) system engineering and software technology through all phases of product delivery to ensure that client deliverables meet expectations.  In addition, Manning manages the firm’s marketing, sales and business partner programs worldwide.

Manning’s career spans over 27 years in the offshore Oil and Gas and Submarine Network Telecommunications industries with a focus on system and subsea engineering solutions. His successful record of initiating strategies to enable business growth has resulted in expanded operations and sales along with advancements of new technological solutions to solve industry problems.

Throughout his career, Manning has led a variety of international corporate expansion efforts that resulted in fast-track growth or acquisition. During his recent tenure at CDL Ltd., Manning was a key point person for the sale of the Company to then-Teledyne Technologies.  As the Business Development and General Manager at Seamap, Manning helped bolster the company’s annual revenue growth by 6x. During his short tenure at Cortland Companies as Houston General Manager, he contributed to the company sale process by leveraging market strategy and corporate positioning.

Amelie Chiasson is the HAUV & Geophysical Lead for the Americas region at 3D at Depth, located in Houston, Texas USA. Her focus will be on marine data and project management. Prior to joining 3D at Depth, Amelie specialised in data analysis, identifying areas of improvement and technical development and spearheading operational excellence initiatives for diverse subsea asset inspections.

Chrissy Maschmeyer is the Operations & Client Lead for the Americas Region of 3D at Depth, located in Houston, Texas, USA. She is responsible for the commercial lifecycle of projects, as well as providing project management for regional operations to meet and exceed client expectations safely and efficiently.

With over 9 years of offshore experience, Chrissy brings a scientific approach to operations management stemming from her background in academia and oil and gas exploration consulting. Chrissy’s offshore career began in academia as a marine geophysicist working with NOAA, MBARI, and BOEM as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina. Her research focused on building machine learning classifiers to accurately detect seafloor features from hydrographic data. Chrissy then joined the Seeps Exploration group at Fugro as a Senior Lead Scientist. She managed the lifecycles of multiple international geophysical and geochemical exploration projects for clients such as Shell, Repsol, and Petronas, among others.

Chrissy joined 3D at Depth in February 2020 as the Americas Operations & Client Lead where she applies her strong technical and client-facing background to the evolution of subsea LiDAR projects in the energy industry. Chrissy welcomes the dynamic environment of subsea energy development, and she will happily discuss how 3D at Depth can meet the challenges of tomorrow with any prospective client.

Derek Pierce brings over 18 years of experience in offshore and onshore surveying with a focus on delivering strategic value to client projects and portfolios. As 3D at Depth’s Customer Sales and Support Engineer, Derek oversees client relationships and deliverables to ensure maximum value is realized for every subsea LiDAR survey project.

Derek joined 3D at Depth in 2015, as the Senior Subsea LiDAR Specialist. His keen ability to identify and mitigate risks, assess conditions and make adjustments in the everchanging offshore environment, earned him a positive reputation with 3D at Depth’s global client base. In 2018 Derek transitioned to a Customer Sales and Support Engineer role where he oversees projects and client relationships, ensuring maximum value is realized for LiDAR projects and providing expert operations advisory services. His project work includes both vertical hub and horizontal spool metrologies, 3D field mapping, scour inspections to damage quantification for as-laid structures/pipes. Derek’s project management expertise has him work collaboratively across client stakeholders to helped drive operational efficiencies and increase returns for a range of client stakeholders.

As part of the team to position positioning 3D at Depth as a leader in the subsea imaging and mapping industry, Derek is based in the Houston, Texas office but works globally across client accounts.

Prior to 3D at Depth, Derek worked across the offshore sector with a wide range of tier one survey contractors. In 2013, Pierce was recruited by UTEC Offshore Survey where he transitioned quickly to a Senior Offshore Surveyor. Before UTEC, Derek worked in the offshore marine survey industry with Fugro-Chance, Inc. based out of Houston, Texas. In this role, Derek spent time working on a multitude of challenging offshore projects. From 2000 to 2010, Derek worked as a Land Surveyor at Capital Surveying, Inc. out of Austin, TX and was responsible for multiple large-scale land development projects as well as TxDOT expansion/improvement projects around the central Texas area.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor of Science, Geographical Information Science – Texas A&M Corpus Christi
• Emphasis in Geomatics
• Registered Professional Land Surveyor – State of Texas #6099

Haseeb Rafeek is the U.S. Operations & Client Lead of 3D at Depth, located in Houston, Texas, USA. He is responsible for the commercial lifecycle of projects, as well as providing project management for regional operations to meet and exceed client expectations safely and efficiently.

Haseeb joined 3D at Depth in August 2021 as the U.S. Operations & Client Lead where he applies his strong technical and client-facing background to the evolution of subsea LiDAR projects in the energy industry.

Ian Ellis is the Operations & Client Lead for 3D at Depth Limited’s Europe, Africa & Middle East region. Located in Kingswells just outside Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

Responsible for managing regional, technical and operational project management, as well as commercial interfaces for Scotland and Northern Europe. From receipt of a scope of work, through to the delivery of results, Ian will ensure our customers achieve their project objectives safely and effectively. Ian’s career started as a survey data processor and has spanned 21 years’ in the offshore Oil and Gas industry. Over this period Ian has held onshore and offshore positions with Subsea 7, UTEC Survey, Nautronix and latterly Proserv where he acted as the Survey Operations Manager.

With expertise in the hydrographic survey, acoustic positioning, inertial navigation and data processing Ian will also support the advancement and commercialisation of new technologies to meet the client’s needs within the region.

As the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for 3D at Depth, Ian Roberts leads the professional engineering and design team that provides technical expertise and best practices for the development, design and build of custom engineering projects for subsea and marine customers worldwide. Roberts’s career spans over 25 years in the offshore Oil and Gas industry, primarily in the ROV and cable burial sectors where his focus was mechanical and hydraulic subsea engineering. His record of providing creative solutions to ROV and tooling requirements includes a wide variety of scopes from small project specific tools to large projects for major contractors.

Before coming to 3D at Depth, Ian worked at Tidewater Subsea supporting ROV operations and tooling design, and assisted in vessel installation and integration of ROV systems. Along with his engineering work, Roberts also implemented Tidewater’s company document control systems in preparation for ISO 9000/14000 certification.

While at Sonsub Houston (later Saipem America), Roberts was the mechanical lead on tooling projects including pipeline repair systems and headed mechanical/hydraulic engineering of the Company’s in- house Innovator ROV build program. Prior to his engagement with Saipan American, Roberts career spanned a wide range of applications including engineering OEM ROV and cable burial systems for both independent ROV manufacturers and providing in house remote systems solutions for major contractors. As part of the CSO Offshore Engineering Department he provided Remote System related engineering support to all CSO regions, before being transferred to Perry Tritech (Jupiter Florida) to leverage his ROV experience, primarily in support of engineering Cable Burial ROV’s and cable Ploughs.

After graduating from university, Roberts secured a position at Sonsub Ltd providing support for ROV operations, engineering in house tooling and supporting tooling projects for Sonsub owner Saipem.  Prior to graduating from University of Huddersfield Roberts worked as a paid intern at Slingsby Engineering Ltd, a UK independent supplier of ROV and Cable Burial systems Robert’s has a. Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Design from the University of Huddersfield.

Paddy Hardey is the Global Commercial Manager for 3D at Depth, located in Houston, Texas USA. He is responsible for overseeing the business development efforts globally for 3D at Depth.

Carl Embry is the Chief Executive Officer for 3D at Depth. As one of the Founders, Carl led the original team that developed 3D at Depth’s underwater LiDAR laser sensors from the initial modeling and prototype through commercialization. Embry has spent over 20 years in the optical and opto-electronic systems industries working for large publicly traded companies and small emerging companies. Embry’s full program management has been evident through every phase of the product life cycle. He  has delivered innovations and best practices across the telecommunications (fiber and free space) and active optical remote sensing systems (lidar and active imaging) industries. His hands-on approach and technical experience in research, design, development, field testing, and manufacturing have allowed him to bring advanced technologies to market with a low-risk approach.

Embry started his career at Hewlett Packard (HP) and HP Labs in Silicon Valley where he worked on free space and fiber optic communications.  He then moved to a Colorado start-up company, Cielo Communications, that developed Giga-bit transceivers for fiber optic communications.  From Cielo, Embry moved to Coherent Technologies, which was eventually bought by Lockheed Martin (LM). At LM he served as a Research Scientist and a Program Manager of LiDAR system projects and he was also heavily involved in business development. During this time, Embry spent a half year as a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Concepcion in Concepcion, Chile.

With a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Embry is listed on numerous technical papers, reviews technical papers for the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, and has been awarded 12 US patents.

Carl Embry is the Chief Executive Officer for 3D at Depth. As one of the Founders, Carl led the original team that developed 3D at Depth’s underwater LiDAR laser sensors from the initial modeling and prototype through commercialization. Embry has spent over 20 years in the optical and opto-electronic systems industries working for large publicly traded companies and small emerging companies. Embry’s full program management has been evident through every phase of the product life cycle. He  has delivered innovations and best practices across the telecommunications (fiber and free space) and active optical remote sensing systems (lidar and active imaging) industries. His hands-on approach and technical experience in research, design, development, field testing, and manufacturing have allowed him to bring advanced technologies to market with a low-risk approach.

Embry started his career at Hewlett Packard (HP) and HP Labs in Silicon Valley where he worked on free space and fiber optic communications.  He then moved to a Colorado start-up company, Cielo Communications, that developed Giga-bit transceivers for fiber optic communications.  From Cielo, Embry moved to Coherent Technologies, which was eventually bought by Lockheed Martin (LM). At LM he served as a Research Scientist and a Program Manager of LiDAR system projects and he was also heavily involved in business development. During this time, Embry spent a half year as a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Concepcion in Concepcion, Chile.

With a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Embry is listed on numerous technical papers, reviews technical papers for the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, and has been awarded 12 US patents.